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David McCullough
George Orwell
Jules Verne
Arthur C. Clarke
Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling
Stephen Covey
John Updike
Abraham Lincoln
William Faulkner
Sherman Alexie
Sir Alan Ayckbourn
Aristophanes
George Eliot
Carrie Chapman Catt
Mark Twain
Arthur Conan Doyle
Virgil
Lysias
Susan Sontag
Aeschylus
Edith Wharton
Thomas Paine
Tacitus
Alfred North Whitehead
Sojourner Truth
Sophocles
Euripides
Paulo Coelho
Margaret Atwood
Lewis Carroll
Arthur Miller
Erich Maria Remarque
Ray Bradbury
Jennifer Niven
Robert Penn Warren
Anthony Doerr
Cormac McCarthy
William Shakespeare
Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, Chris Yeh
Luis J. Rodriguez
Henry James
Claude McKay
Gene Luen Yang
Edward Albee
Neil Gaiman
Zitkala-Ša
Charles Dickens
Bret Easton Ellis
Chris Kyle
Annie Dillard
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philip Roth
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Tracy Kidder
Neil Postman
Confucius
Alexander Weldt
Agatha Christie
Khaled Hosseini
Frank McCourt
Tony Kushner
John Webster
Barbara Kingsolver
Leo Tolstoy
L. M. Montgomery
Jamaica Kincaid
Ayn Rand
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Jean Anouilh
Judith Butler
Charles de Gaulle
Andrew Lang
Tom Stoppard
George Bernard Shaw
Sinclair Lewis
United States Supreme Court
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Kazuo Ishiguro
Sun Tzu
Vannevar Bush
Harold Pinter
Bernard Malamud
Booker T. Washington
Ian McEwan
Tracy Letts
Adrienne Rich
W. G. Sebald
Anne Bradstreet
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Charles Darwin
Malcolm X and Alex Haley
Kate Chopin
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Langston Hughes
Oscar Wilde
Dai Sijie
Barack Obama
Ben Jonson
Herman Melville
Dorothy Allison
Robert Louis Stevenson
Lauren Oliver
Katherine Boo
Martin Heidegger
Sylvia Plath
Toni Morrison
Unknown
Anton Chekhov
Virginia Woolf
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Anonymous
Raymond Chandler
Various Authors
Daphne du Maurier
Anna Sewell
Richard Wright
John Howard Griffin
Frantz Fanon
Rudolfo A. Anaya
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Michael Lewis
Richard Dawkins
José Saramago
Malcolm Gladwell
Octavia Butler
Angela Carter
Stephen Crane
Kurt Vonnegut
Horace Mitchell Miner
Martin Luther
Marcus Zusak
Margery Kempe
Kakuzo Okakura
Christine de Pizan
Baldassare Castiglione
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Jorge Luis Borges
Natsume Sōseki
Robert Ludlum
Robert Putnam
John Boyne
Aldous Huxley
Anzia Yezierska
Truman Capote
Edwidge Danticat
Bertolt Brecht
Monica Ali
Evelyn Waugh
Katherine Paterson
Bartolomé de Las Casas
Stephen Hawking
Junot Díaz
Annie Proulx
Miguel León-Portilla
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jacqueline Woodson
Hanif Kureishi
e.e. cummings
Tobias Wolff
Hannah Kent
Sam Shepard
Dee Alexander Brown
Charles L. Zelden
Stephen Vincent Benét
Jack London
Calvin Coolidge
Roland Barthes
Voltaire
Jean Toomer
John Steinbeck
Geoffrey Chaucer
Giacomo Leopardi
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Ezra Pound
Karl Marx
Milton Friedman
Joseph A. Schumpeter
John Smith
Ian Fleming
Edgar Allan Poe
Florence Nightingale
Maria Edgeworth
Horace Walpole
Tennessee Williams
Joseph Heller
J. D. Salinger
Raymond Carver
Melton A. McLaurin
Leslie Marmon Silko
Michael E. Porter
Jaed Coffin
Roald Dahl
Susanna Rowson
E.B. White
John Collier
Richard Nixon
Chief Seattle
Dave Pelzer
Lord Byron
United States Congress
Robert Cormier
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Gabriel García Márquez
C.S. Lewis
Philip Larkin
Anne Sexton
Claudia Rankine
U.S. Supreme Court
Saint Augustine
Henry David Thoreau
Sigmund Freud
Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson
Samuel P. Huntington
Ernest Hemingway
Anthony Burgess
Caryl Churchill
Hammurabi
Charles Frazier
James McBride
Anne Moody
Robert D. Kaplan
Lyndon Johnson
Pindar
John Kennedy Toole
Thomas de Quincey
William Styron
Julius Caesar
David Foster Wallace
Boethius
Thurgood Marshall
Bharat Anand
Jack Finney
Thomas Hardy
Jonathan Franzen
James Henry Hammond
Alexandre Dumas
John Cheever
Sarah Orne Jewett
Ferdinand de Saussure
Elizabeth Gaskell
Lucille Clifton
William Jennings Bryan
Alan Paton
Thomas Pynchon
Edward W. Said
Mark Haddon
Edmond Rostand
Dan Brown
Stephen King
Arthur Koestler
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nathanael West
Thomas Hobbes
Sister Helen Prejean
Nancy H. Kleinbaum
Nikolai Gogol
Willa Cather
Paul Celan
Thomas Mann
Swami Vivekananda
Giovanni Boccaccio
Margaret Chase Smith
Elizabeth Stanton
French National Constituent Assembly
Olympe de Gouges
Government of South Carolina
John Adams
Hermann Hesse
Alexis de Tocqueville
Oliver Goldsmith
Roger L. Martin
Washington Irving
Erik Larson
Theodor W. Adorno/Max Horkheimer
David Hume
Plato
Samuel Pepys
Anne Frank
Heinrich Heine
Seamus Heaney
Henry Kissinger
Robert D. Putnam
Michel Foucault
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Rene Descartes
Niccolò Machiavelli
J.M. Coetzee
Ursula K. Le Guin
Veronica Roth
Philip K. Dick
Dylan Thomas
Christopher Marlowe
Henrik Ibsen
Katherine Mansfield
Miguel de Cervantes
Matthew Arnold
Nathanel Hawthorne
Boris Pasternak
Bram Stoker
Cristina García
ZZ Packer
J.G. Ballard
James Joyce
Wilfred Owen
Frank Herbert
Theodore Roosevelt
W.B. Yeats
Elizabeth Gilbert
Willy Russell
Alan Lightman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Rainbow Rowell
Tom Wolfe
Thomas Gray
Emilio Aguinaldo
Jane Austen
Eugene O'Neill
Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri
Samuel R. Delany
Orson Scott Card
Samuel Beckett
Francis Fukuyama
John Keats
Joseph McCarthy
Michael Ondaatje
Sonia Nazario
Sîn-lēqi-unninni
David Mas Masumoto
Shirley Chisholm
Peter Shaffer
Samuel Butler
John Locke
Alexander Pope
Thomas Robert Malthus
Yoshida Kenkō
Baruch Spinoza
David D. Laitin, James D. Fearon
Fanny Burney
Alice Walker
Celeste Ng
Flannery O'Connor
Brad Stone
Jean-Paul Sartre
Mohsin Hamid
Tobias Smollett
Jonathan Safran
Yusef Komunyakaa
Edmund Spenser
Hans Christian Andersen
Walter Dean Myers
John J. Mearsheimer
Douglas MacArthur
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Napoleon Bonaparte
Eric Schlosser
Anita Desai
Ivan Turgenev
John Green
Goethe
Hunter S. Thompson
Soren Kierkegaard
Alexander Hamilton
Meg Wolitzer
Betty Friedan
August Wilson
Chuck Palahniuk
James Baldwin
Cicero
Anne Fausto-Sterling
Edwin Abbott Abbott
Katherine Anne Porter
Daniel Keyes
Li Ruzhen
Charles Baudelaire
Doris Pilkington
George Marshall
Robert Lowell
William Cullen Bryant
Monzaemon Chikamatsu
Woodrow Wilson
Howard Gardner
Mary Shelley
Phyllis Schlafly
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
Emmeline Pankhurst
Erin Gruwell
Joseph Stiglitz
Alison Bechdel
Pericles
Joan W. Scott
Aristotle
Ivan Bunin
Steven Johnson
O. Henry
Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner
Zora Neale Hurston
Marilynne Robinson
Susanna Kaysen
Menander
Paula Hawkins
Patrick Henry
Lois Lowry
Jeannette Walls
David Mamet
Harper Lee
Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Coxx
Christina Rosetti
Mario Puzo
Arundhati Roy
Apuleius
James George Frazer
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Margaret Mitchell
Richard Rumelt
Ford Madox Ford
Robert Graves
Andrew Carnegie
Dorothy Wordsworth
Yasunari Kawabata
T.C. Boyle
John Gardner
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Angela Duckworth
Immanuel Kant
Albert Camus
Frank O'Connor
Jonathan Swift
Jared Diamond
Epictetus
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ben Horowitz
Salman Rushdie
Louise Fitzhugh
Gary Paulsen
Angie Thomas
Joseph Conrad
Carson McCullers
Johanna Spyri
Kathryn Stockett
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Saul Bellow
Margot Lee Shetterly
J. D. Vance
Hippocrates
John Hersey
Philip Pullman
Herodotus
Fidel Castro
Alan Bennett
Bertrand Russell
Thucydides
Douglas Adams
J.R.R. Tolkien
Louis Sachar
Orwell
Cynthia Voigt
Yaa Gyasi
Homer
Harvey Milk
D.H. Lawrence
Richard Preston
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Michael Cunningham
N. Scott Momaday
V.S. Naipaul
Isabel Allende
Sandra Cisneros
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Julia Alvarez
Jacob A.Riis
Thomas C. Foster
Dale Carnegie
E. M. Forster
Allen Ginsberg
Hannah Arendt
Victor Hugo
Franz Kafka
Suzanne Collins
Sappho
Frederick Douglass
Kamo no Chōmei
Richard Matheson
Malala Yousafzai and Patricia McCormick
Nelson Mandela
Martin Luther King Jr.
Maya Angelou
Tillie Olsen
Chief Joseph
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Martin Buber
Amy Witting
Isaac Asimov
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Gayle Forman
Pablo Neruda
Rudyard Kipling
Walter Benjamin
Kevin Lynch
André Gide
Rebecca Skloot
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Delmore Schwartz
John McCrae
Desiderius Erasmus
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Carol Gilligan
Nathaniel Philbrick
Tim O'Brien
Harriet Jacobs
Dante Alighieri
Robert B. Cialdini
Brooke Gladstone
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Kiran Desai
Clayton M. Christensen
Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor
J.B. Priestley
Marty Cagan
Saki
Jhumpa Lahiri
Anne Rice
Lynn Nottage
Jon Krakauer
British Parliament
William Ernest Henley
Italo Calvino
Ralph Ellison
H.G. Wells
Frances E. W. Harper
Winston Churchill
Daniel Quinn
H. G. Wells
Sir Walter Scott
Emile Zola
Charlotte Brontë
Jesus
Dalton Trumbo
Esther Forbes
Henry Fielding
Daniel Defoe
Eugenia Ginzburg
Wu Ch'êng-ên, Arthur Waley
Amy Tan
Upton Sinclair
Michael Crichton
Bryan Stevenson
Haruki Murakami
John F. Kennedy
Michael Shaara
Adam Hochschild
H. Rider Haggard
Paul E. Johnson and Sean Wilentz
Edward P. Jones
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Marie de France
William Butler Yeats
Mary Hunter Austin
Steven Pinker
Moisés Kaufman
Randy Pausch
James Fenimore Cooper
Sir Thomas Malory
Walt Whitman
Toni Cade Bambara
Ernest J. Gaines
Walker Evans, James Agee
Peter Abelard and Heloise
Meriwether Lewis&William Clark
Michael W. Doyle
Don DeLillo
James Loewen
Rebecca Harding Davis
Yann Martel
Sherry Turkle
Olaudah Equiano
P. T. Barnum
James Weldon Johnson
R.H. Coase
Conrad Richter
Laura Esquivel
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas
Wole Soyinka
Louisa May Alcott
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Joan Aiken
Karl Popper
Vladimir Nabokov
Samuel Selvon
Linda Sue Park
Ishmael Beah
John Osborne
Edward Bellamy
William Golding
Shirley Jackson
Richard Wilbur
Louise Erdrich
T.S. Eliot
A.E. Housman
Alice Sebold
Bret Harte
Kingsley Amis
Lyndon B. Johnson
Henry David Huang
Sophie Treadwell
Gustave Flaubert
Lu Xun
King John
Dashiell Hammett
Viktor Frankl
Oliver Sacks
Robert Bolt
Andrew Aydin and John Lewis
Mary Wollstonecraft
Heinrich Von Kleist
Andy Weir
Athol Fugard
Art Spiegelman
James Dashner
George Ritzer
Jojo Moyes
Marcus Aurelius
René Descartes
Israel Zangwill
Arthur Golden
Ovid
Cesar Chavez
Robert Hayden
Jeffrey Eugenides
Derek Walcott
Stieg Larsson
John R. Searle
Carol S. Dweck
William Gibson
Molière
Stephen Jay Gould
August Strindberg
Mississippi Legislature
W. W. Jacobs
James Monroe
Wilkie Collins
Margaret Sanger
Richard Connell
Ernesto Che Guevara
T. S. Eliot
W. H. Auden
Robert Browning
Theodore Roethke
Edith Hamilton
William Burroughs
Umberto Eco
Saul Kripke
Mary Rowlandson
Matsuo Basho
Goerge W. Bush
Guy de Maupassant
Kamala Markandaya
William Cowper
W.E.B. Du Bois
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Kazuo Ishiguru
Various
Emma Lazarus
Michelle Alexander
William Morris
Barbara Ehrenreich
Elie Wiesel
Djuna Barnes
J.D. Salinger
Marjorie Shostak
Chinua Achebe
John Okada
Sir Walter Raleigh
Joy Kogawa
Ambrose Bierce
Horace
D. H. Lawrence
William Bradford
Michael Pollan
Andrew Jackson
John Stuart Mill
Carl Clausewitz
Nevil Shute
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
Judith Sargent Murray
Friedrich Nietzsche
Jack Kerouac
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
T. H. White
Elizabeth Bishop
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Ken Kesey
Robert H. Jackson
Jeanette Winterson
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
Judith Guest
Aphra Behn
Wes Moore
Thornton Wilder
Isak Dinesen
Thomas Bell
C. S. Lewis
S. E. Hinton
Rainer Maria Rilke
John Milton
Nella Larsen
Honoré de Balzac
George Saunders
Pat Buchanan
Yukio Mishima
Paulo Freire
Blaise Pascal
Howard Zinn
Patrick Süskind
Stephen Chbosky
Charles Perrault
Marjane Satrapi
Li-Young Lee
J.M. Barrie
Norton Juster
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Gerard Manley Hopkins
William Langland
John Bunyan
A.G. Lafley, Roger L. Martin
Emily Dickinson
William Wordsworth
Robert Frost
Marianne Moore
Petrarch
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Wallace Stevens
Jean-François Lyotard
Graham Greene
Powhatan
William James
Dan Ariely
Erving Goffman
Muriel Spark
George MacDonald
Epicurus
Marcus Garvey
James Hogg
Kahlil Gibran
Max Weber
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Mahatma Gandhi
Mao Tse-tung
Kim Scott
Horatio Alger
E. L. Doctorow
Lorraine Hansberry
Sonia Gandhi
R. K. Narayan
Denis Diderot
David Malouf
James D. Fearon
Ernest Cline
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Anita Diamant
William Carlos Williams
Stendhal
Phil Klay
Edmund Burke
Pat Barker
Edward Randolph
Department of State and Department of Defense
Noam Chomsky
Natalie Zemon Davis
Richard Yates
Eugène Ionesco
Zane Grey
J.M. Synge
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Norman Maclean
Mildred D. Taylor
Aelius Aristides
E.M. Forster
Tupak Shakur
King George III
Rita Mae Brown
Omar Khayyám
Philip Caputo
William Craft
William De Mille
Ha Jin
Eleanor Coerr
Aldo Leopold
Yuval Noah Harari
Tatiana de Rosnay
Juvenal
James Hurst
Donald Barthelme
Charles E. Lindblom
Tayeb Salih
W. B. Yeats
Simone de Beauvoir
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sue Monk Kidd
James Thurber
Edward Lear
Georg Trakl
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Arthur Rimbaud
Friedrich Hölderlin
James Thomson
John Donne
Dr. Seuss
Edith Nesbit
Aesop
John Ashbery
Laurence Sterne
John Knowles
W.H. Auden
T.E. Lawrence
Hisaye Yamamoto
E. Annie Proulx
Bill Bryson
Frederick Jackson Turner
Nabokov
Shusaku Endo
Rachel Carson
Jesmyn Ward
Jonathan Edwards
Pearl Poet
Theodore Dreiser
Luigi Pirandello
Keats
Elizabeth Kolbert
David Almond
Andrea Levy
David Berman
Neal Stephenson
David Guterson
John Greenleaf Whittier
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Guy Debord
C. Wright Mills
Rupert Brooke
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
George R.R. Martin
William Blake
Jostein Gaarder
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ida B. Wells
Thomas Kyd
Laurie Halse Anderson
Queen Elizabeth I
Anne Fadiman
Richard Williamson
Montesquieu
Edgar Lee Masters
Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz
John le Carré
John H. Reagan
Mario Vargos Llosa
Robert A. Heinlein
Thomas Kuhn
Dick Hebdige
Emile Durkheim
Thomas Aquinas
Ray Lawler
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